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What is your favorite kind of tree?

I truly enjoy walking in the woods and love trees. Weeping willows, monkey puzzle, redwoods…what’s not to love? I have a tree grown from a jade tree plant clipping my grandmother brought back from Hong Kong. I grow avocado trees from avocado pits.

What’s your favorite tree? And if you have the time, why is that your favorite?

28 Answers

Weeping Willows are great, I love those. If I ever own a house, I’d like to have some of those in the yard.
I also LOOVE pines, there’s just something about them that makes a place look all warm and peaceful. Plus they stay green in the Winter, so that rocks.

I also love pines. I love their scent and color in the winter. I collected large and misshaped pine cones from my vacations when I was growing up. I refuse to get a fake Christmas tree because I enjoy these trees so much. Well, I guess if I really loved them I wouldn’t chop one down at Christmas, but I want that smell in my living room!

You can’t go wrong with maple trees in the fall. I’m loving the colors right now.

I don’t know about absolute favourite but I really like Liquid Amber trees, I have one on my grass roadside verge that was 1 m high when I moved into this house and now stands near enough to 10 m tall.

@Symbeline I have a couple of weeping willows on this property, they are gorgeous I agree but I would never plant them close to the house, the root system goes wild, they are specially attracted to water. Be very careful about placement, that’s my advice.

I have several massive, hundreds of years old Heritage Oaks down the hill off my deck.
The Maidu indians native to this part of California used to bury their dead under Oaks like these and I often wonder if I have a burial ground around this property somewhere. The trees date back to the pre-Goldrush era.

Redwoods are simply amazing. I advise any tree or nature lover to watch the TED talks on giant redwoods….they are incredible. Perhaps other types of trees possess similar abilities but if they do I am very unaware.

THOSE OF YOU WHO WOULD LIKE TO OWN A WEEPING WILLOW, CHECK YOUR AREA. IN WISCONSIN THEY WERE VERY VERY BUGGY UNDER THEIR LOVELY WEEPING LIMBS.
My favorite is a maple whose leave turn bright colors in Autumn.

Man, I love a lot of different trees. Way too hard to pick a favorite! I’m a big fan of the weepers, whether they be willow, cherry, or lace leaf Japanese Maple (I have one of these, and it’s beautiful.) I love birch trees for their bark, sycamores for their beautiful yellow color in the fall, dogwoods and magnolias for their flowers (and mags for their glossy leaves, too), and the list goes on. I even have a really tall weed ‘tree’ growing outside my kitchen window, and I won’t let my husband cut it down because I like the greenery, haha. I’d need to have a huge yard to accommodate my wish list!

Sugar Maple trees are my favorite. They have great colors in the fall. The leaves are fun to burn when they are dry. The wood is hard and the sap is delicious. I put it in coffee when I collect a few gallons in early spring. It’s like Shel Silverstein’s “Giving Tree”.

I’ll tell you what, if acorns had any value I’d be a gazillionaire right now. They are zinging down from the sky at a rate of about 100 per hour, and have been every day for weeks now. I just went out to let my geese out of their barn and I can hardly walk without rolling along on the little bastards. lol
Seriously, my house is dangerous right now.

Even the poor geese are slipping and tripping.
I have a rake right by the gate and have to rake the area before I even try to open the gate or it gets stuck on the acorns and won’t open.
I can rake a path clear that is covered again in about an hour. The deer are enjoying a bountiful feast though, and the piles I rake are dinner stations for them. :-p

@Coloma That’s how it is in my apple orchard. They are large, 60 year old tree (red delicious, macintosh, golden delicious) that are dropping apples like bombs. Two days ago there were 10 deer out there munching. It is tough to walk because the apples twist your ankles.

@LuckyGuy Oooh, lucky you, care to pick a peck of dem apples for me? haha
I JUST was standing on the landing in my garage listening to the acorns zinging down. Bouncing off the fences, the barn roof, the house. My car stays in the garage all the time right now, they dent the roof. Terminal velocity you know. lol